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Just one of the many recommendations the American people have shared with the president to improve the welfare of the nation
Step away from Twitter; don't even think about creating that spoof account. Fake Twitter profiles are so 2012. The hip gag for 2013 is White House petitions.
The administration created a website called We the People back in fall 2011, but it has only really hit its stride in the last few weeks. For the uninitiated, here's how it works: Anyone older than 13 can create a petition. Any petition that gets 150 signatures in the first 30 days becomes searchable on the site -- so basically, all you have to do is round up all your friends. Any petition that collects 25,000 signatures earns an official White House response "in a timely fashion." Any petition that falls short goes into the virtual shredder.
Predictably, this well-intentioned if meaningless gesture at transparency and openness was quickly dominated by two groups, in this order: pot-legalization activists, then Internet snark merchants. (Yes, there's some solid overlap on that Venn diagram.) In honor of this year's clever-but-soon-tiresome comedic device, here are the 14 silliest, weirdest, and most entertaining petitions from We the People.
A classic of the genre, inspired by the vice president's insane/insanely charming stand-up routine while swearing in senators last week. Of course, the Biden reality-show push has deep roots, and The Onion probably deserves royalties; calling this "job creation" and "education" is a nice touch. The Atlantic Wire's Richard Lawson has some excellent ideas about how this might work in real life.
Signatures as of 1/7: 1,714
For every intentionally humorous petition, there are a dozen that don't intend to be funny. They're also usually funnier. Someone has been working on their elevator pitch about table tennis, although it seems like this might not be the most pressing priority in America's public schools. Bonus points for random capitalization.
Signatures: 871
Seriously, who would think that this was a good idea?
Signatures: 5,149
This is truly a sad situation. Losing a pet is no fun. It's probably not under the purview of the federal government, though.
Signatures: 1,218
It's not that the U.S. has never interfered in the domestic operations of a foreign country, but it is still hard to imagine Obama intervening and imposing an electoral recount on a major ally. Also, that's a statement, not a request. Through the wonders of the Internet, however, this petition has enough signers to fill a mid-size basketball arena.
Signatures: 14,676
So this one is fairly reasonable. Have you ever had one of these candies? They're delightful. It's like Cadbury Creme Egg but with a toy in the middle instead of a sugary goop. In July, an American couple was detained by Customs officials for trying to bring them into the country, and threatened with fines of $2,500 per egg. It seems like there might be greater dangers to American children than German candy.
Signatures: 2,687
Ban her from what? Eating Kinder eggs? Perhaps it would be more effective to petition directly against the FISA Amendments Act.
Signatures: 10,532
Hyperliterate indie rock is all well and good. And when Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle is right, he's right. But if anyone's going to replace current U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey, Obama favorite, White House regular, and Medal of Freedom recipient Bob Dylan -- who like Darnielle sings poorly -- is probably ahead of him on the list.
Signatures: 3,650 (all of them are Brooklyn Vegan readers)
You don't have to like Piers Morgan -- and really, few people do -- to recognize that American courts have generally recognized that non-citizens living within the United States enjoy the same right to free speech as citizens. It's also hard to see how criticizing a law breaks any Americans laws or would justify deportation. And what sort of precedent would it set if the government were to go out of its way to individually persecute a single television host over a political stand? Talk about slippery slopes!
Signatures: 104,547
"That's no moon. It's a stimulus package!" No snark here. This is a straight-up great idea, and could unite the left (say, George Lucas) and right (say, Newt Gingrich). Having easily crossed the 25,000 threshold, this one's going to the White House. Their reply is eagerly awaited.
Signatures: 33,836
The founding hipsters first arrived on Bedford Avenue two decades earlier convinced that the East Village was "overpriced" and that more generally, Manhattan was "so over."
In recent years, the trustifarians have turned the Bedford Avenue area into a disneyland of fashionable shops and expensive cocktail bars. The baby-bankers living in the glass, waterfront towers have pushed out the smack junkies and complain to the police about "noise" from rock musicians.
As such, the grittier East Williamsburg would prefer to disassociate from Williamsburg as a fully separate and independent neighborhood. The people of East Williamsburg actually have real jobs. Their shops are not particularly fashionable. Some of the bars are genuinely dangerous dives. Please allow the neighborhood to secede.
Naturally We the People, like everything else, eventually degrades into insidery hipster jokes among New Yorkers. Here, residents of a marginally lower-rent neighborhood pretend to have the moral high ground over their slightly more gentrified neighbors, apparently either ignorant of the fact -- or trying to pretend they're ignorant of it, more likely -- that "East Williamsburg" is a made-up real-estate appellation for Bushwick. In a similarly hipster-themed gag, the bar Jackie's Fifth Amendment in bougie burg Park Slope petitioned to secede and create its own neighborhood.
Signatures: Both petitions expired without reaching the requisite 25,000. They were cooler before people knew about them anyway.
Think this all sounds pretty silly? You might wish the White House would just ignore all of this and continue to work through the traditional channels. There's a petition for that, of course.
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It's not too soon for plans to monitor new development goals
Speed read
- A lack of data has made it difficult to evaluate the Millennium Development Goals
- The debate over goals after 2015 should also examine how to measure progress
- Developing nations will need support to collect and analyse necessary data
The next set of development goals should be underpinned by plans to measure progress and results — and to boost data infrastructures.
The countdown to the post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda is a time for debate about how the development community and countries around the world should collaborate on improving wellbeing, sustainability and social justice from 2015.
Look beyond the proposals and the wrangling over priorities, imagine a new development framework in place and fast-forward two decades: how many questions will we be able to answer about what has and hasn't worked?
The challenge is bound to be greater for the next set of goals, which, as currently conceived, will draw on a broader set of development objectives compared with the MDGs' human development focus.The value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is clear when we reflect on progress made in the past decade or so: with the benefit of hindsight, answering questions about the MDGs' impact has been far from straightforward.
Although scientists and political leaders are right to target what needs to be achieved first, it is not too soon to consider how progress might be measured. The scientific method can be a guide, and proposals by stakeholders eager to shape the new goals a good place to start.
Goal discussion
In recent weeks, discussions about the future course of global development have been gathering steam, led by the UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and running alongside a separate process to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that was launched at the Rio+20 summit last June.
An evolving list of proposed goals includes numerous issues — from climate change to education to peace-building — championed by governments and organisations around the world. [1]
Issues around measuring progress and results have not been ignored: this list includes several proposals on how targets and indicators might be developed, with many of them focusing on inequality and wellbeing. In addition, a 2012 report by the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda outlines ways to develop goals, targets and indicators for addressing inequalities. [2]
The report also highlights the need to invest in disaggregated data collection and analysis, and to develop methods — using new technologies and social media — that complement household surveys by monitoring at the community level.
But before building on existing methods, and while considering targets and indicators, it is vital to address obstacles at the root of countries' capacity to monitor progress and results — the infrastructure to collect, analyse and use data for decision-making.
Data concerns
Critics of the MDGs have argued that a lack of data, difficulties in obtaining valid measurements and the use of national averages that obscure inequalities within countries and populations have made it difficult to determine how much progress has been made — particularly in poorer parts of the world. These are drawbacks also acknowledged by MDGs advisor Jeffrey Sachs. [3]
For example, nearly half of Sub-Saharan African nations have not carried out any household surveys for ten years, according to Caroline Anstey, managing director of the World Bank. [4]
And last month, health experts speaking at the launch of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 in London said the lack of information infrastructure in the developing world means little is known about even a basic measure such as causes of child death.
The case of health-related MDGs shows that evaluating results can be difficult even where there is a strong tradition of empirical analysis. Public health policies and interventions tend to focus on physical and biological causes of disease and, although environmental and social components of wellbeing are increasingly taken into account, linking health with wider development concerns is still something of a struggle.
This highlights two realities. First, if measuring progress was a shortcoming of the MDGs, monitoring progress in the potentially wider-focused SDGs is likely to be much more challenging.
Second, if the new global goals are to address underlying components of poverty, and include environmental and socioeconomic dimensions of wellbeing, measurement of their progress will require data on hard-to-quantify factors, including governance, to be captured.
Ensuring measurability
Though a broader approach to development is a step in the right direction, it should be implemented alongside a practical M&E strategy that includes investing in data infrastructure where needed.
A report released this week by the UK parliament's International Development Committee calls for improvements in how progress is measured while maintaining the "simplicity and measurability" of the MDGs. [5] Peter Holmgren, director-general of the Center for International Forestry Research, has also argued for keeping goals simple — and affordable. [6]
Calls for simplicity may not find support from those who advocate a broader approach to development. But regardless of how much complexity ends up making its way into the process, M&E should be a central feature of goal setting.
A focus on evidence need not mean technocratic solutions. But it can encourage accountability, offer guidance and enable evidence-based decisions, bridging the gap between the big-picture questions that need to be asked and the realities of how, and whether, they can be answered.
The scientific method can be a guide here — with clarity about what is expected of development goals followed by how to measure progress and results, the information required to do this and the analysis needed to draw conclusions. This process should also make provisions for tracking development outcomes that are not easily captured by data, or where data are not readily available.
The task might be easier if proposals for issues to be tackled in the next generation of development goals come with a discussion of not just their significance but also the methods, tools and resources needed to address them.
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[1] Bergh, G. Tracking proposals on future development goals (Post2015.org, 2013).
[2] UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda Addressing inequalities: The heart of the post-2015 agenda and the future we want for all (UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda, 2012).
[3] Sachs, J.D. From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals (The Lancet, 2012).
[4] Rural 21 European Development Days 2012: Putting people first (Rural 21, 2012).
[5] International Development Committee International Development Committee — Eighth Report
Post-2015 Development Goals (International Development Committee, 2013).
[6] Holmgren, P. Measuring sustainable development must be made simple and affordable (Center for International Forestry Research, 2013).

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I've got a whole different kind of candy to share with you today which may not taste as good as a chocolate bunny but I guarantee it has a lot less calories, LOL!
If you were stopping by the ol' bloggity blog a few month's back you may remember seeing this shy fairy when I drew her up for a challenge. Well, some of you asked and now here she is in rubber! Please welcome back Coriander Fairy. Coriander is one of the 'unofficial' line of spice fairies, just like her sister, Ginger, and they are a bit more elegant looking than the other inhabitants of Sweet November land.
Coriander is naturally shy and quiet... though with the way I colored her up on this card she may find it hard to be a wallflower much longer, LOL! Still, if Coriander had it her way, her days would be spent chatting with the flowers and listening to the spring breezes sing.
Now you'll want to flutter on over to Traci's and Maire's blogs for more Coriander loveliness. They've both been knocking my socks off with their sneak peeks and today's cards are no exception!
Oh and you'll also want to stop by the ATS blog today too as there are more Sweet November sneaks going on with a chance to win all four stamps from this April release! So be sure to check that out!


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Events for 5 August 2019
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Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons
The ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic ArtFind out more »
Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present dayFind out more »
Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
Marianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration CampFind out more »
Internment – Living with the Wire
Discover more about 'life behind the wire' and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around themFind out more »
The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40's.Find out more »
George Adams – Bauhausler in Britain
Featuring the work of George Adams (1904-1983).Find out more »
The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944
In the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France's art market thrived.Find out more »
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Display of gifted artworksFind out more »
Great British Jews: A Celebration
This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.Find out more »
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery's 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi EuropeFind out more »
Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
Margaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.Find out more »
Between Worlds
An exhibition exploring the founding and early years of the Glyndebourne FestivalFind out more »
Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.Find out more »
Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Following the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.Find out more »
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library's summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) SimonFind out more »
Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
This display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.Find out more »
Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter NesslerFind out more »
Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.Find out more »
The Bauhaus in Britain
This free display considers connections between Germany's Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in BritainFind out more »
Grete Marks
An exhibition of intimate portrait paintings and drawings by Grete MarksFind out more »
Brave New Visions
A group of émigrés, who had fled Nazi-dominated Europe, resolved to embrace the future and introduce avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.Find out more »
ART-EXIT: 1939 A Very Different Europe
The exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe 80 years ago in the lead up to, and the start of, WW2. It features the forced journeys of many of central Europe's most distinguished and pioneering artists, who fled tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.Find out more »
Brave New Visions
Brave New Visions shows how in bleak post-war London, a group of émigrés who had found sanctuary in Britain in the 1930s re-made their lives and introduced avant-garde European and British artists such as Naum Gabo, Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Graham Sutherland and Ben Nicholson to the broader public.Find out more »
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
Marie Neurath – an émigré graphic designer and author, led a team at the Isotype Institute that produced over 80 illustrated children's books from 1944-1971. The pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers produced infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts.Find out more »


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Projects are an integral part of our hands-on, applications-oriented, undergraduate and graduate curricula, as well as student clubs. All undergraduates are required to complete a senior design project as part of their program, and graduate students can choose between the project or thesis options. The project is a culmination experience in our degree programs - all classroom theory gets put into practice at the end of the program of study. If you are interested in sponsoring a project in the ME department, please contact faculty with the required expertise directly, or the department chair.
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Notable past projects
2013 Knee Replacement Testing Device
2013 Solar-powered Portable Freezer
2012 TechEdSat, Cube Satellite from SJSU
2012 Spherical Drive Motorcycle
2011 SAE Vehicles: Formula One, Baja Off-Road, Formula Hybrid
Recent Projects
CAD model of knee replacement testing device (courtesy of Harik Patadiya 2013)
Unveiling of 2013 Formula SAE race car
Solar-powered portable freezer, 2013
Rendering of spherical drive motorcycle (courtesy of Spherical Drive System)


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Russian journalist Alexander Kuranov, a Czech correspondent of the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, who has been denied accreditation in the Czech Republic, has written a letter to Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, asking him to review his case. Mr Kuranov, who has lived in the Czech Republic for nearly 30 years, says he regards the country as his home and claims he has never written anything that would harm its interests. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refused to extend accreditation to Mr Kuranova and another Russian journalist, allegedly because they are considered a security risk to the country by the Czech counter-intelligence, BIS.
The tabloid Blesk remains the most-read Czech daily newspaper, with over one million readers in the last quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, according to fresh data released by the publishers' union on Thursday. The daily Mladá fronta Dnes came in second with 631,000 readers, followed by the daily Sport with 286,000 readers, which has overtaken the left-leaning daily Právo. The survey also found that 64 percent of people aged between 12 and 79 read at least one daily newspaper over a two-week period.
This year's Tax Freedom Day in the Czech Republic falls on June 2nd, according to the Prague-based Liberal Institute, referring to estimates by the OECD. Tax Freedom Day is the day in the year when the average Czech has earned enough to pay his annual tax bill. This means that people's entire earnings in the first 153 days of the year will be paid to the authorities, which is the lowest figure since 2000, while anything earned after that is theirs alone. This year, the Tax Freedom Day comes three days earlier than last year, and four days later than the OECD average.
The Minister of Interior Milan Chovanec wants to cancel joint patrols by soldiers and police by the end of the month. He made the announcement on Thursday during the ministry's conference on terrorism. Following the terrorist attacks in Brussels at the end of March, the government deployed some 550 soldiers to join police patrols at airports, railway stations, selected embassies and other high-risk sites. The minister wants to keep joint patrols in the capital during the European conference on Interpol, which is taking place from May 18 to 20.
Czech children spend on average two hours a day in the outdoors, according to a survey carried out by the Median agency for the foundation Proměny. On weekdays, schoolchildren spend on average an hour and 41 minutes outside, while at the weekends, time spent outdoors increases to two hours and 49 minutes. According to the head of the Proměny foundation, Jitka Přerovská, there are big differences between children as regards their age and their parents' educational background. Younger children between the age of seven and nine with university-educated parents tend to spend more time outdoors than others.
The Czech-Slovak investment group Penta on Thursday unveiled a massive development project in the centre of Prague, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, a British architectural design firm launched by the recently deceased world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid. The Central Business District should be built in the vicinity of Masaryk Station, where Penta acquired around 15000 square metres of land in January. The project includes eight administrative buildings with an area of over 90,000 square metres. The first building could be completed by the end of 2019, the spokesman for Penta, Ivo Mravinac has said.
The controversial Russian motorcycle gang the Night Wolves will take part in a two-hour ride through Prague on Saturday, according to the association Red Eyed Ceue, which organizes the event. The bikers are also planning to attend a ceremony at Prague's Olšany cemetery honouring the victims of WWII. Some 80 members of the controversial gang are travelling through the Czech Republic on their annual ride from Moscow to Berlin to mark the end of WWII. The ride has been approved by Czech authorities.
Greek authorities have detained two Syrian nationals with Czech passports, which they wanted to use on their way to Switzerland, the Greek radio station Athina984informed on Thursday. Two men aged 22 and 29 were apprehended by the police at Iraklia airport on the island of Crete. They have been accused of forging official documents.
If the mining company OKD, which has filed for insolvency, is not able to pay wages and severance payments to employees, the state will take over, the Minister for Industry and Trade, Jan Mládek, said on Thursday. According to Mr Mládek, the company will run out of cash already in June. OKD filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, after the Czech government had rejected appeals from the firm – which employs around 10,000 people – for financial support to help it close lossmaking mines and restructure its business.
Betting company Fortuna said it business boomed in the first quarter of the year with the value of bets placed rising by around 26 percent to total around 250 million euros. But operating profit plummeted by around 37 percent to 4.6 million euros. Fortuna, majority owned by the Penta group, said one of the main factors was a steeper betting tax in the Czech Republic. The group operates in the Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Hungarian markets.


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He did not know how long he had been standing at the balcony, waiting to see her come. She knew he was standing at the balcony for past one hour. She had been watching him from the café across the street. She did not want him to see her return home. Reason, she did not know. It was either the guilt that was killing her from within or she wanted to give him a surprise.
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Rengali and Hirakud Reservoirs in Orissa, India21.6N 84.0E
Two large artificial reservoirs can be observed in this image of the state of Orissa, India: the Rengali Reservoir, appearing golden green, to the right, and the Hirakud Reservoir, darker blue in color, to the left.
The Rengali Reservoir was created by the Rengali Dam across Brahmani River in near the village of Rengali. The dam is 70.5 m tall and 1040 m wide. The reservoir formed by the dam is the second largest reservoir in Orissa with 37, 840 hectares at full level and 28,000 hectares in mean level.
The Hirakud Reservoir was created by the Hirakud Dam, built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur. The 55km long reservoir holds 743 km2 (287 sq mi) at full capacity, with a shoreline of over 639 km (397 mi).


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Giants Trade Alderson for Freddy Sanchez
I'm sure most of you baseball fans are aware by now that the Giants have traded one of their top pitching prospects in Tim Alderson to the Pittsburgh Pirates for oft-injured all-star second basemen Freddy Sanchez. The first I hear about this move was actually on line, as I was scrolling through Yahoo Sports and saw the headline "Giants acquire Sanchez from Pirates". I read said article, but that article only had information about the player the Giants attained and didn't give any info about who they gave up. At that point, I figured they may have gotten him without dealing anyone too significant, otherwise the Yahoo writers would have included it in their article. However, that couldn't be any less the case. The Giants had to part with their number 2 pitching prospect, and a guy who a lot of scouts see as a future ace in Tim Alderson, to get a hold of the steady-hitting second basemen.
Now, I'm not going to sit here all post and beat this subject to death, I just want to say it once and leave it at that; I would not have made this deal if I were Sabean. Not because I don't think Sanchez will help, but because I would have rather seen a bigger deal go down if it had to involve Alderson. I can't help but think that the Giants could have gotten someone a lot better than Sanchez for a package with Alderson and a few other guys. Now, I'm on vacation and trying to keep the mood good, so I'm not going to spend my day dwelling about this because there are some positive sides to this move. Sanchez is an all-star caliber second basemen, and although he doesn't posses the pop that the Giants lack, he's a career .300 hitter who will come in and stabilize a position of need for the orange and black. He's also under contract through the 2010 season, so he's not just going to be a one-and-done type player over the last 2 months.
Freddy had somewhat of an off year in 2008, but in '06-'07, he hit .344 and .304 respectively, and had over 80 RBI in each of those seasons. He is a guy who can hit with runners in scoring position and immediately becomes the teams best all-around right-handed bat. He's also more than capable defensively at second base, which should strengthen the Giants up the middle. Again though, he's battling a bum knee right now that could keep him out another couple of days, which is fine, as long as this thing doesn't linger all season. With the news of Edgar Renteria ailing and needing offseason surgery, it was pretty immanent that the Giants added another infielder, and Sanchez had been on their radar for much of the past month. He's a good player, and he along with Ryan Garko may be enough to jump start this offense and bring them to a respectable level, but giving up Alderson was too much if you ask me!
Note: Again, I'm in Southern California until Monday, so unless something big goes down between now and then (like a deal for a starter?), we probably won't have another post here until Monday, August 2nd! Thanks for checking us out, and be sure to check on Monday!


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Fremont resident Rick Evans has worked in the automotive industry as a sales or service manager for manufacturers. Currently between jobs, he wonders aloud about whether the joint venture announced last week between Tesla and Toyota to build electric cards at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (Nummi) site is sustainable.
I have spent 30 years in the automotive industry and I do not see how this can possibly succeed with the current business plan. If Tesla sells 1,000 roadsters a year as their website claims, they are grossing $20 million a year until their 2012 S sedan comes out, (this is based on an industry average of $20,000 average gross profit per vehicle for a $100,000 car.) So they have a $465 million dollar low interest loan from the government, that they have to pay back. If they actually purchase this property as their website says, it would cost millions for a factory that they cannot use more than 10 per cent of for the first 5 years. It generally costs a car company $50 million to retool a factory for a new production vehicle.
After the design of a vehicle, (which is generally another $40 to $50 million dollar cost) manufacturing plants the size of Nummi have to produce at least 100,000 units a year for 5 years to break even. That plant is capable of almost 500,000 units a year with three shifts running. It is not cost effective to produce less than 150,000 cars a year there, especially if the UAW gets established there with union wages. Tesla has made no public comment on how many S sedans it is projecting to sell, but industry analysts are projecting maybe 40,000 a year on the high side.
To properly market a car after production costs, generally costs $100 million a year, if you want to get to 100,000 units a year.
This just does not make business sense to me. I truly believe Toyota is making a Public Relations push here in light of their recent bad publicity.
We need to start asking some questions. How can Tesla afford to buy a multi-million dollar property when they have never shown a profit? Is the state of California subsidizing this or giving tax breaks when we have a $20 billion dollar deficit. What is Tesla's business plan to sell 100,000 units a year without franchised dealers? Remember they are going with company owned stores in the major markets, which has never been done in the industry before. To substantiate a manufacturing plant, a minimum of 100,000 vehicles a year have to be manufactured/sold. There are at least 4 well established car companies existing right now that can't meet that criteria, but they all have a huge parent company to bail them out.
Even the $100 million IPO that Tesla is posturing around, would not bail them out. I think anyone would see why this is hard to have faith in, financially.
Elon Musk is a brilliant guy in the high tech industry, but the automotive industry, because of it's extraordinarily high start-up costs and competiveness is a completely different animal. It is not like Pay Pal.
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Amy Gardner
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Nov 17, 2012
Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite embroiled in the scandal surrounding former CIA director and retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus's abrupt resignation last week, visited the White House with her twin sister three times this fall, a White House official confirmed Friday.
Kelley, 37, and her sister, Natalie Khawam, lunched at the White House mess, or cafeteria, twice with a mid-level staffer in the Obama administration whom Kelley had met socially in Tampa. One lunch occurred in late September and the other in late October. In addition, Kelley, her husband, their three children, her sister and her sister's child took a tour of the White House on Nov. 4.
All three visits were arranged by the staffer as a courtesy and at the request of Kelley, said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The staffer did not offer a private tour but simply arranged for Kelley and her relatives to take a tour of the White House that is regularly available to members of the public.
The official said the staffer met Kelley during a visit to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, headquarters of the U.S. Central Command. It was during Petraeus's command there that he met Kelley, a prominent Tampa socialite known for throwing lavish parties and for befriending top military leaders at Central Command.
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Twisted Rose in Lace
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Thursday, July 31, 2008
Twisted Rose has a gorgeous freebie available. Find it in a white and black box on the reception desk NEXT TO the boxes filled with gift certificates. The lovely tattoo and a nice plain silver necklace are in adjoining boxes. This is truly special. THANKS SO MUCH!
Hair by House of Heart (Doll) and shoes by Juicy. Poses by LAP.
What a great way to end the month. Post 50 completed. Woot!
The Good and The Bad -- and the really fun!
More shapes to try? Well at least one. Janey Bulloch put out an unreleased shape for $0. Find it upstairs at Shoe Fly. This shape is busty and hippy and TALL (over my 6 feet anyway) with a pretty face. Everyone has a different idea of beauty of course, but if you are a gal who always wanted to be taller in real life -- like me -- this could be the skin for you.
And then there is the Fashcon retailer who sent out a post reading Free Skin and Shape when with further reading we found that "free" was $29. /me shaking head in wonder and amazement at the audacity of people.
BAIASTICE has put out the August freebie and WHAT a freebie it is. A whole closet of clothes! I haven't opened all of them but if you have a few building skills and some prims left on your land, this is a really fun package. A note of warning to our newer citizens though. The gift box is actually a real closet with clothes on the hangers. The items to wear are inside the clothes. VERY clever! If you have NO building skills, however, you could get into trouble as the item is a coalesced object (sort of semi linked). Anyway, if it doubt, go to a sandbox and give it a try. LOTS of fun for sure.
July's Finalle
It's been a wild month at Phil's Place. I am hoping to get my 50th post in for the month by the end of the day. And of course I can DO that -- even if I have to emote to fill that last post. Sure 'nough.
So here are a few items to check out before we arrive in August.
InStyle has a very cute monokini for free at their shop. Find it right near the entrance. There is a lot of clubwear here as well as formal attire, so if that is your mode of dress in our virtual land, be sure and peruse the offerings.
EarthStones has a table of gifts (some old, some new, at least one for men) in their store -- all for $0. There is also a toe ring on the mantel behind the owl. And a lucky chair.
SLink has a new necklace set in its lucky chair. I thought I would try my luck and TPed over. There was a B on the chair so I called my friend Benicia and she got a set. Yeah! THEN the chair went to a ? and I got one and then an X so Benicia called HER friend and the fun just kept happening. I just had to take this picture to remember the moment. We didn't know any Q folks so the excitement ended. A closeup picture of the necklace and earring set is below.
Samara Studios has a new shape out called Shandra. You can get a copy only version for $1 for 24 hours (from about 11 am). I felt just like a movie star in this. And I think I look vaguely familiar -- ah Sandra Bullock? Maybe so. Anyway fun. I was tempted to stay in star mode but switched back to my old shape. TOO MUCH change is very disconcerting.
Necklace and earrings by SLink :D Top by Imperial Elegance (see previous post).
Evening Releases
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Two new releases of note out this eve, plus a sale that even "I" bought something at. Hard to believe!
First off -- Imperial Elegance is offering a free basic AO (stands are small movements, nice ground sit etc and sexy walk - see the photo) for $0. AND they have a wall of retired merchandise for $1. I got a pack of four tops in luscious deep colors with MANY layers for a buck. Can't go wrong there. Many accessories and other tops too. So take a look. There is a lucky sign to check for poses also.
Prism Haute Couture Clothing is giving away this outfit (there is a cute belt you cannot see and several other choices and many layers) for $0 this evening only.
Default ME credits with poses by Imperial Elegance.
Midweek Update
There are some new outfits out at two of the best places to be -- for freebie fashion that is!
While I admit to not finding ALL the boxes at the Cal Gal groupfest, I did find two new great ones including lingerie! Yeah. The cute capri outfit also comes with a skirt -- also very fun and retro.
elDee sent out a group message that she put out a Retrology gift a bit tardily. There are actually two outfits in her box. The jacket top and the tank shown are separate layers so good for mix and matching with other pieces.
As always, you can click the photos here for larger views :D
Hair by Diversity, Shoes by Juicy, Poses by LAP.
And if you haven't guess it yet -- this is the NEW default "me". For awhile anyway!
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Lots of different looks today which is always fun. Here are some of the nicest gifts I found around and about.
From Kunglers we have a very cute babydoll dress suitable for an evening of culture AND fun! Available for one week.
Ardigraf Designs Group has a wickedly sexy catsuit (it comes with optional lacy skirt panels) that goes perfectly with the on the wall hunt item from Sn@tch -- "the shoes! the shoes". I added a cute necklace from Tomboy to finish the look. All free!
If you are in the mood for some flamenco attire, check out this shop -- a whole store dedicated to the dance. This outfit including shoes and cute earrings is a gift from the owner.
Hair - House of Heart, picture 1 shoes - Juicy, Poses - LAP
Happy Anniversary Retrology: Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of this post, it is HERE.
It's a new dawn and the early morning brought with it even more wonderful goodies. Here are a few. This is not ALL of the offerings, just a sampling. There are also some non-wearable items. So journey over to Retrology and have some fun. And be sure and EXPLORE while you are there. Much to see.
EDIT: I notice from this morning's posts on the feed that there have been more gifts added that weren't there on my visit. So if you were an early adventurer like me, you might want to return. You can see them all HERE. (NOW I find out! - LOL) I still had a GREAT time with all the cute locations. Thanks to all the designers who took part!
Shoes by Juicy, Poses by LAP, Hair by Diversity.
Happy Anniversary Retrology: Part 1
Retrology is one of my favorite place. Simply FUN! Lots of photo ops, great details.
AND they are having their first anniversary. To celebrate many of the retailers have given US presents -- isn't that great? And they are extremely nice ones too. I went over this eve and did the tour. It's getting to be turning into a pumpkin time in my little corner of the world so I will finish my photo shoot tomorrow. Meanwhile here are some of the great items available in the gray boxes.
So come on down.
Shoes by Juicy, Poses by LAP, Hair by Diversity.
Diner Blues
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Sunday, July 27, 2008
elDee has a very nice retro pants set in THREE COLORS. Camp for an hour and it is yours. The other colors are olive and raspberry. It comes with a prim collar that I didn't love. Works fine without it :D They also have a VERY good looking and different one piece swimsuit with a cute green cover up for $10 so check that out. (Like I NEED more clothes? - but you might.)
Also shown is the new gift item from ZIBWARE. Find it next to the lucky chairs upstairs. Previous gifts are still available. The set includes bangles for both left and right arms as well as earrings.
Shoes from Juicy, Hair from Diversity, Top pose ANA_MATIONS,
Yeahs and Nays for Sunday
YEAH! - Cartunno Couture has a lovely vintage dress available for a limited time for $1. It flows beautifully. You will most likely need to shrink both skirt and hat -- unless of course you are OVER six feet tall (wink). Find it PROMINENTLY displayed in a huge vendor in the middle of the shop (no hunting here - wink). There is also an oriental dress at the entrance for $0.
Hair by Calla, Pose by LAP (new - TY Dove!)
Lilleth Mills Couture is offering a $1 pre opening gift. Find it on the wall near the entrance. HARD to miss (wink). It comes on various layers and includes sculpty shoes. This is very nicely made and suitable for most any formal event. I'm not sure I will be attending one (ever) but I am making an outfit just in case (wink).
Hair by House of Heart, Necklace by Hexed, pose by "the waterfall".
A yeah goes out to all the retailers who are now SAYING that free items are only for their group. THANK YOU!
And a special thanks to Dove Swanson who sent out poses to her update group because LL had ME$$ED things up big time. I love them LAP poses!
OK. Here are my two current "you've GOT to be kidding" issues.
1. When did a Dollarbie become $20 Linden?!?!?!? People are advertising dollarbies in their Fashcon posts and in the notecards (thank you for telling us there anyway) we find they are $10 and even $20 Linden. Enough is enough. A Dollarbie IS a dollar -- not a family of them (wink).
2. One store in particular (no names here) seems to be sending out very iffy freebie announcements. Last week there was a problem with the freebie items. This week there is a free item "on the wall" somewhere but the vendors are the type with no prices on mouseover and in order to FIND the one among the many, a person would need to click through each one. Now this is NOT fun by any means and the chances of buying by mistake are greatly increased. I noticed that the sim was almost deserted when I ventured over to check it out. Enough said.
JE*REPUBLIC sent me a cute pair of earrings this eve. They are the summer group gift -- so the notecard states. They come in three colors which you can see on their website.
Being the good little blogger, I zipped over to their store to have a look. VERY CLASSY as the pictures show. They have hair and clothes and jewelry etc. and room for expansion.
I also found a couple of dollarbies - a logo purse and hair. So you might want to check those out as well as the shop of course.
Below are some pictures. I am heading to bed in that other world we call RL. See ya soon.
PS. I'm doing pretty good settling in to "new me" mode. Change is good. Change is difficult (wink). So what ELSE is new?
OMG, I'm still in the same outfit as earlier today. Tired. Look in the archives for credits :D
Head to Toe Freebies
Dark Mouse has a very pretty gift necklace on the coffee table at the Taber store. These sandals are $1 and are under the New sign near the couch. There is also a very pretty new necklace release and don't forget to check that lucky chair. Goodies in there.
House of Heart had a HUGE release of hair last night. Find the color demo pack (I got mine on a stand near the door to the other shops) to try on the latest from one of our most generous designers. There are UNISEX styles here too. Below are some of my favorites. There is a huge variety this week so check them out.
Necklace shown from Bonita's Jewelery - free if you can find the satellite shop it was in. Sorry :( Too many stops today.
Cal Gal Freebie Geebies Week
It's a big week at Callie Cline's new digs. You can read about it all here.
I ventured over to see the excitement and was very impressed with the HUGE new build. Flying is GOOD there as it is indeed cavernous. No doubt waiting for lots of new things to be put out. This is good.
So, in case you were wondering what you might FIND during this week of giftdom. Here are a few pictures along with the designers names. I don't promise to show them all to you. I do -- now and then -- need to venture over into real life territory and accomplish a few things. But here is a preview. These gifts are still out. You need your Cal Gal tag on to collect them. Look for big gift boxes and don't forget the second floor.
Hair by Diversity, Poses by ANA_MATIONS.
Ethereal PIxels Designs
Ethereal PIxels Designs has a cute new purple top for you to try. "It is from the Impressions Set and celebrates the beauty of all women: gracious, feline like and inspiring." You can buy the set in other colors at her shop.
There are two other gifts in her shop plus a collection of what appear to be carefully crafted period and current era clothing. The shop is small. I am assuming it is new? New to me anyway and I am happy to have found it. I especially like the pants from gift one with the top from gift two. Today's gift is very lovely and well made. Take a look at her shop; I bet you'll be happy you did.
Hair by Diversity (free as color demo), Shoes by Juicy, Poses by ANA_MATIONS, LOTTA and Tuli.
Ohana Isle Hunt
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Friday, July 25, 2008
The Ohana Isle Treasure Hunt is on. Look for small sand pails with blue, white and yellow stripes. Watch carefully for the floating text. I suggest WALKING is best :D
Here are a few of the items that you might find. They are all over. I only got a few. Have fun. Click for larger pictures.
Oh So Pretty in Pink et Noir
katatOnik has a new $1 hot pink and black set at the freebie store at Free*Style. Two colors of leggings and two skirts with resize scripts are included. These are very nicely made and you can mix and match to make various looks. Not a skirt gal? It's simply a matter of leaving it off; that works too.
There isn't much yet at this apparently new store, but there are skins and shapes to pick up if you are in need :D
Hair by Calla, Shoes by Juicy, Poses by ANA_MATIONS and "the rock".
Love Those Lucky Chairs
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Thursday, July 24, 2008
Not all lucky chairs are created equal of course, but I have been doing SO well with them of late and not even in lucky chair rounds mode -- way too busy for that. Still, when I was at Sn@tch today checking out something, the chair was a "C". And oh what a C it was. Now I KNOW it is the middle of summer, but I am wearing this tonight anyway. I added a very cute necklace also from a lucky chair (SLink - previously blogged) and I am feeling my way with the skin business still. So while this isn't really "me" (could it be? yes, it could. Somethings coming ....) it is certainly a LOOK (wink).
Hair - House of Heart, Stockings Celestial Studios, Shoes Juicy, Pose ANA_MATIONS and LAP
Feminine Coral & a Touch of Silver
When I was visiting the MARIANELA Skins shop for the review or her skins, I found a VERY nicely made dress as a gift. It comes with both short (shown) and long skirt.
I added cute earrings from Moontan Jewelry. Find them in the middle of the floor in a box. Thank you Moontan, they are lovely. A gold version is available for purchase in the shop.
Shoes by Juicy, Hair by House of Heart, Pose by ANA_MATIONS, Skin by MARIANELA.


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Instructor(s) Ghosh, Shubha
Transactional Intellectual Property (3 credits) Spring 2014
Book: Gruner, Ghosh & Kesan, Intellectual Property in Business Organizations: Cases and Materials (Lexis-Nexis 2012)(looseleaf edition). Plus occasional supplementary articles and materials.
The seminar examines intellectual property as copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret issues in various business contexts. Class meetings will focus on topical issues and pending cases and transactions dealing with licensing of intellectual property, antitrust, transactional lawyering, intellectual property commercialization, or other current legal issues at the intersection of intellectual property and business law. Structured as a practicuum, the instructor expects each student to prepare one written project (35 pages in length) that entails picking an entity and rigorously presenting (1) identification of intellectual property assets owned by the entity, (2) analysis of licensing terms as they apply to employment and related issues, and (3) analysis of business law issues pertinent to the chosen entity such as antitrust or financing questions. Periodic review of drafts is expected for successful completion of the course. The seminar serves as a capstone course for business students interested in intellectual property and intellectual property students interested in business law and policy. The goal is to allow students to see intellectual property in practice and to synthesize intellectual property and business policy. Prerequisites: Business Organization I plus one of the following: Introduction to Intellectual Property or Copyright or Patent.


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As AdvisorOne reported in April, President Barack Obama has picked Kara Stein and Michael Piwowar to be commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission, replacing Elisse Walter and Troy Paredes.
Obama announced late Thursday that Stein, an aide to Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., will replace Walter (right), a democrat, and that Piwowar, an economist on the Senate Banking Committee's staff, will replace Paredes, a Republican.
The nominations now go to the Senate Banking Committee for approval, and then on to the full Senate.
Paredes' term expires on June 5, 2013. Walters' term technically expired on June 5, 2012, but she can stay in office until the end of this year.
Piwowar's term would expire on June 5, 2018, and Stein's term would expire on June 5, 2017.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., said in a statement that Stein "is a smart, dedicated public servant who has done superb work for Senator Reed on issues before the committee for over a decade. I look forward to supporting Kara's nomination, and I am confident she will make an outstanding commissioner."
Piwowar, Johnson said, "has extensive experience working on securities issues. Both of their experiences will serve them well as they work to fulfill the SEC's mission of protecting investors and ensuring a fair marketplace." Johnson said he looked forward "to moving both their nominations forward."
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement that Piwowar's "in-depth expertise of capital markets and background as a chief economist make him exceptionally well-qualified for this position as the SEC moves forward on critical issues."
He added that as the Republican chief economist and securities expert for the Banking Committee, and previously an economist on the Council of Economic Advisers for two presidents, Piwowar "has thoroughly demonstrated his understanding of these complex issues."
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"Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach."
This is an odious and offensive insult to teachers everywhere. It should be banished, sent to the same place the "n" word has gone. Never will I write it again.
It's an insult to the memory of the historical Jesus, who is reported to have thought of himself as a teacher. What was it he couldn't "do" that led him down the path to his wonderfully instructive parables? Was it carpentry?
It's an insult to the special education teachers who taught my autistic son. What was it they couldn't "do" that led them down the path to such commitment and reciprocal joy?
It's an insult to the faculty of professional schools, trade schools and special schools such as Hartford's famous American School for the Deaf.
It's a personal insult to me. Both my parents were teachers. The most important part of my job as a professor is the instruction and mentorship of young people. This includes being a teacher of teachers.
But most sharply, it's an insult to the postgraduate students I met earlier this fall at Avery Point, in Groton. That's where UConn is helping to train the next generation of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) teachers that Connecticut will need to support its future economy. Specifically, UConn-Avery Point offers an 11-month intensive Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates.
During my guest appearance with them, I asked the question: "What rankles you most about your decision to become a teacher?" Kevin Agnello's response was to quote the insult above. This struck raw nerves around the room, leading to the fruitful discussion that precipitated this column.
If the insult were true, all these students would be admitting that they failed to "do" something else before choosing to teach. But Agnello didn't fail. He majored in finance and mathematics, graduated, and worked before deciding that teaching would be a more personally satisfying career. So he entered the certification program, will soon obtain his teaching credential, and will help lead the state toward its STEM future. Let's not throw insults his way as he matures professionally.
Also in this crowd were card-carrying scientists and engineers. Those like Stephanie Robles and Darcey Collins, who chose to leave good jobs for this higher calling. For them, teaching was a second choice, not in priority, but in historical sequence. Also present were several die-hard, but chronically underpaid teachers like Steven Hovorka, Jennifer Dufraine and Julie Simpson, who taught at hands-on science programs like Nature's Classroom, Mystic Aquarium, and Project Oceanology, all of whom were seasonally employed. Certification will allow them to earn a living doing what they already do well.
Finally, the biggest surprise was to see one of my own students, Hannah Mondrach. She was there, along with other recent graduates such as Tia Ciliano, Becky Redhead, Stephen Sobolewski and Aidan Weeks, who are in the process of adapting their training in science and math to expand the state's pool of STEM teachers.
Though I can't officially certify that the program is working well, I can unofficially assure you that it more than meets the mark. First, the student group led by Professor John Settlage passes my sniff test for enthusiasm. Arriving early, I lingered in the hall to listen for both the volume and content of the classroom banter. It was loud and on-topic, a trading of war stories from their student teaching experiences.
Second, the students talked about being a support group for each other like the guys at the VFW or the American Legion. They will need that mutual support to stay in the trenches and raise our STEM education to the rising global standard.
I end this column on a personal note. The decisions these young people are making parallels one I made many years ago. Indeed, I was once a gainfully employed and enthusiastic professional before my wife pointed out the obvious, that I should become a teacher. Like them, I went back for my certification, a doctorate, and the rest is history.
Robert M. Thorson is a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His column appears every other Thursday. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bible Study 2014-4-29
Worship Service, Bible Study and Sunday School have been cancelled due to government guidelines concerning COVID-19.
New sermons will be made available online.
West Homestead United Methodist Church
515 W 8th Ave
Homestead, PA 15120
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Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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There will be a lot more to say – at some point – about what has been both the worst and best week of our careers in journalism. Our main concern right now is to make sure that the rest of the story of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and its aftermath is told. That's going to take quite some time, and quite a bit more effort and resources. And to make sure that the people on our team, after nine days of interviewing witnesses to unspeakable horror and covering 6-year-olds' funerals, are dealing with their own grief and trauma.
But I wanted to pause and take note of how remarkable it was for us to see our entire company come together to help us cover this story. More than 100 journalists have been involved in the New Haven Register's Newtown coverage over the past week, including 55 reporters, 17 photographers and 10 main editors on the ground in Connecticut contributing to our coverage. A number of Register reporters and editors worked straight through from first word of the shooting Friday morning to the editing of the story about the final funeral eight days later.
Digital First Media sent 29 reporters and eight photographers from 17 different daily newspapers in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado and Connecticut, including a team of six from the Denver Post, six from the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania and five from the Lowell Sun in Massachusetts.
The company's national news office, "Thunderdome," sent five reporters, five editors, two web producers and a video specialist, and devoted more than a dozen others to help from afar on editing, web production, data and interactives.
And throughout, we had access, advice and assistance from company leaders who'd unfortunately done this before.
Jim McClure, editor of the York Daily Record and East Region editor for Digital First, organized the influx of support from out-of-town journalists for us and was on the ground in Connecticut drawing on his experience covering a 2001 machete attack on a Pennsylvania elementary school. Photographer Tom Kelly IV of the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., came with experience covering the Nickel Mines Amish elementary school shooting in 2006.
Helping at our makeshift newsroom just outside of Newtown this past week was Mike Topel, national editor at Digital First Media's Thunderdome office in New York. He helped lead the AP's coverage of Columbine in 1999.
Frank Scandale, Digital First's vice president of print production, helped lead the Denver Post's Columbine coverage as metro editor. He offered advice from afar and then arrived in New Haven mid-week to help plan a special print edition encapsulating more than a week's worth of coverage for the Sunday newspaper.
And we were also able to turn to Denver Post Editor Greg Moore, who led intense coverage of the Aurora movie theater shooting earlier this year, and Digital First Editor-in-Chief Jim Brady, who was leading WashingtonPost.Com during the Virginia Tech massacre.


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I have written many times about the Master Cleanse program in this blog (links provided at the end of this post). My comments have been covered by the Associated Press and are also on Wikipedia. Most recently, however, was a radio talk show virtual debate between Peter Glickman, a major proponent of the Master Cleanse, and myself, taking a more negative position.
The program aired live on Saturday January 19, 2008 on KCRW, a public radio station in Los Angeles. The show was part of a weekly food program called Good Food, hosted by Evan Kleiman. But if you're interested, you can access the show's archive at any time simply by visiting the KCRW web page. When you get there, you'll find a description of the entire show, including all the guests. Near the top of the page, under the date, you can either click on Listen or Podcast, depending on your preference. If you click on Listen, a new window should open and the program should start playing. Since the Master Cleanse portion doesn't begin for about 20 minutes or so, if you don't want to listen to the beginning of the show, just use the slider bar by clicking on it with your mouse and dragging it to the right. You'll likely have to do this a few times to get it exactly to the correct spot. But I do also recommend you listen to the guest just prior to the Master Cleanse part, journalist Michael Pollan talking about his latest book called "In Defense of Food" (and whose work I refer to below).
As some of you may know, Peter Glickman is the best-selling author of "Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days." His Web site, The Raw Food Site, is loaded with information about the Master Cleanse program, and has access to his web store where one can buy books, DVDs, kits, ingredients, and a host of other products. As I said on the Good Food radio program, the only people who advocate the Master Cleanse in any formal way (aside from individuals who post comments on websites) are people who are making money off it, and Mr. Glickman is no exception.
On his Web site, Mr. Glickman makes the following claims for the Master Cleanse:
• Lose cravings for unhealthy foods
• Lose extra pounds
• Regain the energy of your youth
• Detoxify your body and improve your health
Unfortunately, however, all these claims are false. If you have cravings for unhealthy foods before you do the Master Cleanse, you'll still have them when you're done. The program flushes out your intestines and colon, it doesn't change the way you think. If you make some permanent changes to your diet (with or without the cleanse), you might be able to rid yourself of cravings by breaking your addictions to caffeine, sugar, salt, alcohol, (add your personal cravings here), but this takes hard work, commitment, awareness and self-discipline. If you do the Master Cleanse and go right back to your prior lifestyle and eating patterns, your cravings will be there waiting for you.
Next we have the issue of weight loss. Yes, you'll lose some weight while doing the Master Cleanse. After all, you're going from several thousand calories a day to a thousand or less a day and this will cause you to lose a few pounds (not to mention having an empty GI tract). But, again, unless you make some permanent changes to your diet, when you go back to your normal way of eating those pounds will come right back. Nearly everyone who has tried any type of crash diet will tell you the same thing: namely, the weight comes back. There's only one way to lose and keep weight off. And that's by changing your calorie equation: fewer calories in, more calories out. In other words, eat a little less and exercise a little more - not as a temporary fix or a crash program, but as a permanent change for the long term.
Then he claims you'll "regain the energy of your youth." Wouldn't that be great? Flush out your colon and you'll regain the energy of your youth. There's an old saying that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. And I can't think of a more appropriate claim to which to apply that sound advice.
Lastly, you get to detoxify your body and improve your health - detoxify what exactly? Improve your health how, exactly? Here's a hint: two big unknowns. One of the things that is never addressed, either with the Master Cleanse, or with any cleanse, is what toxins are being removed and where they are being removed from. You need to understand how your digestive system works. It is constantly in motion, moving food through all the way from the mouth to the toilet. In particular, the colon is not a holding tank where materials accumulate, rot and give off noxious "toxins." Food moves through, nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine and water in the large intestine, and the leftover solids are eliminated. Constantly in motion, constantly flushing itself, constantly cleansing itself, that's how the intestines work.
But let's say that you do eat some real toxins such as the heavy metals lead or mercury. Either they are going to pass through your GI tract and be eliminated or they are going to be absorbed out of it and into the blood stream. Once in the blood they might get eliminated through the kidneys in the urine, or they might get deposited inside certain cells of your body (fat cells perhaps). So the only thing the Master Cleanse might do would be to flush out things you might have eaten in the last few days that haven't yet been absorbed or eliminated. If they're no longer in the colon, the Master Cleanse isn't going to suck them out of the tissues where they were deposited, it just doesn't work that way.
My advice is to forget all quick fixes including the Master Cleanse. I'm completely in favor of your making positive changes to the way you eat. Eat less. Eat real foods rather than highly processed and highly refined food-like substances (I'm referencing Michael Pollan's work here). Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, more whole grains. Eat mostly plants. And don't forget to change the other side of the calorie equation. Get some exercise. Go for a walk. Make permanent changes.
Dr. Z's Master Cleanse links:
Master Diet = Master Scam (the original post)
Master Cleanse Redux (my response to all the heated comments on the original)
Master Cleanse and HealthTalk in the News (AP press coverage)
Master Cleanse - Another Negative View (why it's still a bad idea)
Wikipedia's information on Master Cleanse (I'm listed as the nemesis to the cleanse – of course)
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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July 12, 2007 (Boise, ID) – Pet families are doing more to care for their pets, and according to research, one of the hottest consumer services is pet insurance. In the United States, 63% of households have pets and 37% of pet owners consider their pets important family members. Over 70 million U.S. households own dogs or cats, and 45% of U.S. households own more than one pet. Consumer spending on pets has more than doubled from $17 billion in 1994 to an estimated $38.4 billion in 2006, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA). The APPMA association projects $15.2 billion will be spent on food, $9.3 billion on supplies and over-the-counter-medications, and $9.4 billion on veterinary care in 2007. Pets Best Insurance is now available in North Carolina and New Mexico.
According to Pets Best Founder, Dr. Jack Stephens, "We are very happy to enter North Carolina and New Mexico! These are very important markets for Pets Best Insurance. The bond families share with their pets is extraordinary, and pet insurance is now accepted across our nation. Pet Best Insurance provides peace of mind and pays 80% of veterinary care after the deductible. With just a few more states, Pets Best Insurance will be nationwide! We look forward to doing our part to increase pet health through funding needed veterinary care!"
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NAPLES, Fla. -- Lydia Ko didn't need to wait for the prize money to realize why this week is so different on the LPGA Tour.
She was reminded in the airport by a question she has heard dozens of times. The 16-year-old from New Zealand was clearing customs when the agent asked her purpose for coming to the United States. She told him she was playing in a golf tournament.
"He says, 'Are you a professional?' I was like, 'Yeah, I am.' So that was the biggest thing," Ko said Wednesday. "I never said that before."
When the agent inquired about her game, the teenager with maturity beyond her years mentioned that she was No. 5 in the women's world ranking.
Clearly, this is no ordinary pro debut.
Not since Michelle Wie played her first LPGA Tour event as a pro - in 2005, just two days after she turned 16 - has there been so much buzz about a newcomer. But their age and South Korean heritage are about all they have in common.
Wie already had signed lucrative endorsement deals with Nike and Sony. Ko doesn't even have an agent, much less a corporate contract. She wore a cap promoting golf in New Zealand for a news conference that was carried live by Golf Channel.
The biggest difference is that Ko is already proven to be one of the top players in women's golf. She won the Canadian Women's Open against a strong field last year at 15, making her the youngest winner of an LPGA event. She defended her title this summer, and she was runner-up in an LPGA major at the Evian Championship. Ko also has two other professional wins in Australia and New Zealand.
"I don't think Lydia has anything to prove," Suzann Pettersen said. "She's already proven she's good enough to be out there on a regular basis."
LPGA Tour commissioner Mike Whan waived the minimum age requirement of 18 for Ko. The last player given that waiver was Lexi Thompson, who now is 18 and won last week in Mexico for the second time this year.
Ko starts her pro career Thursday at Tiburon Golf Club with Wie (now 24) and 19-year-old Jessica Korda.
She also is playing a tournament in Taiwan to close out her year, and then she will play a full schedule mixed in with high school. She has one more year remaining, though her mother has not ruled out going to college while playing the tour, much as Wie did at Stanford.
For now, she is testing different equipment and trying to decide her best path with management and endorsements. She is in no rush. One other decision is where to live while playing the LPGA Tour. It's a 16-hour commute from New Zealand.
And as luck would have it, she met one of her favorite players, Phil Mickelson, while in San Diego to test equipment.
"We're looking Florida and Texas and a couple other places there's no income tax," Ko said. "Phil mentioned that one of the biggest mistakes was staying after college where the taxes are quite high. So I'm trying to stay in a low place. I don't have any money yet."
She has been getting by on $80 a month as her allowance. A win at the Titleholders is worth $700,000, the richest payoff in women's golf. The purse is still $2 million, though the winner's check has been bumped by $200,000 from last year.
Unlike everyone else at Tiburon, Ko prepared for the LPGA Tour's final event by knocking out some final exams in English and photography.
"It's helped me kind of get my mind off golf and get my mind off the whole pro thing," she said. "That's been a huge help. I couldn't practice as much as I wanted to because of the studies, so I guess it's just balance."
That explains a lot about the teenager, who acts like one only at home.
There is an even temper about Ko that shows some staying power. After her family moved to New Zealand, she took up golf when she was 5 and has been on a fast track ever since. She was intent on staying amateur until her success made it difficult to turn down.
Even so, there is little evidence that Ko is running herself into the ground with a steady diet of only golf.
"When I'm off the golf course, I trying to think of everything apart from golf," she said. "I try to stay calm in all situations. Being steady is one of the biggest things."
One of those distractions is photography. She wants her first big purchase to be a good camera.
And she was still a little stressed out about that exam. Ko needs a certain grade to be able to take the next level in school. She saw a fellow student's project before she left New Zealand and worried that hers wasn't as good.
Ko's project was unique, for sure. She had to use photos to tell a story. Ko selected pictures she took from her various stops around the world, whether it was in Queensland or Geneva, St. Andrews or Niagara Falls.
"My Photoshop skills are not so good," she said with a laugh.
But what a story they tell - not just the cities, but the kind of golf she played in them. And her pro career is just getting started.


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Vectors are priced in 4 price brackets. Trace, path quality and subject matter may also affect the pricing of your work.
1 CREDIT vectors (25 credits under Extended License)
Simple Icon sets, ornaments and graphics, traced images or silhouettes/shapes, simple backgrounds or graphic design elements, highly common or similar subject material. Single or groups of silhouettes and objects.
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Multiple color Icon sets, ornaments and graphic sets, cartoons, complex silhouette groups, backgrounds or detailed design element sets or renders. Large groups of objects.
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Multiple detailed Icon sets, ornaments and complex graphic sets. Highly detailed cartoons, illustrations, silhouettes, backgrounds or complex design element sets. Unique and creative compositions and subjects.
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They say they price them depending on the quality. They don't. 99% of the graphics have the $1 price tag.
This topic and your astonishment to see a $3 sale says it all.


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Disadvantages of Dental Implants: The Cons
As an authority in the field of dental implant dentistry I can tell you there ARE disadvantages to dental implants. Like anything else, there are pros and cons. Many dentists and patients speak about the pros of implants and bone grafting but there is not a lot of good information on the cons.
The Cost of Dental Implants
The cost of the procedure(s) is probably the most common disadvantage cited by patients. How much do dental implants cost? How much is a sinus lift bone graft? How much is an implant crown? These are questions I hear all the time. Dental implants and grafting in my office are reasonable and affordable.
Keep in mind that implants are body parts that you really want to make sure you have a very experienced surgeon as opposed to a novice that may do few implants per year. The cost varies depending on the difficulty or ease of your unique mouth.
Dental Insurance Normally Will Not Cover the Implants Procedure
Dental Insurance is another disadvantage. Most dental insurance plans don't cover dental implants, bone grafts, sinus lifts, etc. Sometimes they will cover part of your procedure. They may only cover the crown, abutment OR the implant itself.
Keep in mind that dental insurance does not go very far at all. Unlike medical insurance, it has a very low yearly limit that has not changed in 40 years! So what ends up happening is the whole implant process costs more than the average $1000 or $1500 yearly limit set 40 years ago!
Don't get me wrong, dental insurance helps, but it only helps with part of ONE implant if they even cover any of it. Many plans just exclude them altogether.
Dental Implants Require Surgery
Another disadvantage of dental implants is that it requires a surgery. The implant has to be placed into your bone. Surgery is not without risks. In my own hands, the dental implant complication rate is about 1%, but the average is somewhere between 5-10%.
Risks include, infection, prolonged bleeding, damage to other teeth, nerve damage, delayed bone healing, jaw fracture and many others. Knowing how to recognize and quickly treat complications is the key
Restoration replacement
Another con of dental implants are that the teeth or tooth will probably have to be replaced some day.
If you have an overdenture or a All on 4 full arch fixed implant bridge with plastic teeth, those teeth WILL wear out and need to be replaced. A porcelain crown or bridge on an implant can chip or break, too. The teeth that go on top of implants are no different than the teeth without implants. It is normal to replace crowns, fillings, bridges and dentures…they don't last forever. Good design, a great lab and the diagnosis is the key to minimizing having to replace your dental work. Making implant teeth is often more complex and costly than the surgery and bone grafting…experience counts.
Over time you can lose bone around your dental implants
Some slight bone loss over many years is normal. If you lose too much bone, you may have to replace the whole implant. The original surgery and original fabrication design of the teeth are a huge factor in the long-term health of your dental implants. Choose a very skilled implant dentist.
Implants Take Time For Bone Integration
A common disadvantage for dental implants is that they take time. Although I replace many teeth, with same day implants and bone grafting, the majority take three to six months to complete. This is because bone just heals slowly. If you need bone grafting, treatment time can extend from 3 months to 18 months or more depending on your unique situation. A regular bridge can be made in days or weeks.
The bottom line is that there are disadvantages to the dental implant process. The reality is the pros outweigh the cons. Overall, the process is a long-term benefit for a short term sacrifice. Dental implants are by far the best option in the majority of situations when teeth are lost.


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Despite the formidable pile of debris on my desk, the back seat of my car and in other quasi-public areas, I'm actually a closet germaphobe disguised as a carefree dude.
At least that's my explanation for never stopping to buy the produce, honey, boiled peanuts and other goodies from the roadside stands that populate Central Florida's rural thoroughfares on weekends. Lately, in my role as your traveling correspondent, I've started bending that rule.
It's not always pretty.
On a recent trip to Polk County, I sampled a pork taco at a roadside barbecue stand headquartered in a mobile home. It was going OK until I bit down on a fingernail-sized rubber pellet that I first mistook for a piece of gristle. At least it wasn't a fingernail, right?
(Honestly, the things I do for you people.)
There are temptations, however, that are worth the risks, which is where the gator jerky signs come in.
I have been passing the homemade, cardboard placards for a long time on excursions into Lake County along State Road 46. A big fan of fried gator bites and gator po' boys, I was confident that I'd be able to handle the jerky version, made of meat, soy sauce, salt and spices, according to recipes I'd seen online.
So I pulled over to the dusty shoulder of the highway this past weekend at the stand about midway between Sanford and Mount Dora.
I wouldn't call this particular gator jerky salesman the most outgoing Floridian I've ever met. I did learn that his gator jerky is made by his grandfather in South Florida and that he's been selling it in this particular spot for a couple of years. The guy next to him, stirring the pot of boiled peanuts, wasn't too chatty, either.
"Those guys thought you were some health inspector," said my son, along for the ride. "He thought you were going to turn him in."
Hey, I just wanted the jerky.
Gator jerky is kind of pricey, as it turns out. My sealed baggie, filled with about half a dozen thick strips about 4-inches long, was $10. Big fans can take home three bags for $25.
I'm not a connoisseur of dried meat, but it wasn't bad. I couldn't tell it apart from beef jerky in a blind taste test, but at least it didn't have a rubber pellet in it.